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S3 allows you to include a maxfile size param in your upload signature, so it should be easy enough for this to be fixed. However, you still have to be careful, as someone uploading 100 10MB files is just as bad as 1 1000MB file.
the issue is easy , torrents are not financing content creation. In the end someone has to pay in order for tv-shows to be produced and producers have rights. You cant just decide to own something if you did not pay for it one way or another , or it is called stealing. And because it is easy to do so doesnt mean it is legal or it is moral. Nothing is free down this world. But torrent sites are making money with the traffic they generate with the content they illegaly distribute. They create revenue by destroying a lot of value.
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Ruffle the feathers of those proving the truth in the generation of self-entitlement.
Saddam did it first with his mobile rail-based chemical weapons labs.
His common references to ALL white people as acting a certain way and use of terms like "dumbwhite*" make it pretty clear that he dislikes (or is at least prejudice against) all white people. If a white person were to say any of those things about black people, asian people, or any other people, they'd be racist - what's the difference when a black person says it?

It's not white privilege to be able to weigh in on what is and isn't racism. It's the privilege of every person, regardless of race, to have an opinion.

Do you have evidence to support your claim? Are you talking about pure numbers or per capita? Are you limiting your numbers to a specific country? Do not use numbers as an argument unless you have actual numbers to back up your argument.
Just to offer the opposite opinion, as a frequent user of Hulu I love the new redesign. To me it has less of the useless stuff and more of the useful stuff immediately available.

The new front page has helped me discover many new shows that I wouldn't have found any other way

Additionally the new design feels much faster and more responsive. If given a choice I would not go back to the old design.
Except ad revenue on the internet is nothing compared to ad revenu on tv , unless you are google and you sell personal data along with ad spots.
You can claim a white person is a racist, and I have no doubt that some of the people he encountered were racists, but he is obviously a racist as well.

Him being a racist doesn't mean the white people he was interacting with weren't racists too. I'm just saying that it becomes a factor in his credibility, because he makes it obvious that he did not remain impartial while working there.
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I don't get it. This type of app is extremely fit for web. Tying to a single platform doesn't really make sense.
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I'm not saying we can't talk about it - that's fine. I'm just pointing out that it is tough to remain impartial when you have to factor in your own biases.

And, again, if you're going to tell me that racism is bad, you can't do it while being a racist yourself. Well, I suppose you can, anyone has the right to say what they want, but you have to at least acknowledge the hypocrisy.
He admitted he is pushing a bill, and in all probability, there is a defense company that is selling some network monitoring, firewall-ing, or anti-virus software has probably asked for his "help" and is "sponsoring" both him and the bill
Humans are still humans. Software security can increase but people are still weak and convenience versus security is a common trade off.
I disagree that the incidents were documented. Unless there is audio or video recordings of the incidents, where we can see, through an impartial view, exactly what the people he was interacting were doing and saying, we have to hear about them through his recollection of events. As he writes these events for us to read he's recalling what those people said or did, and his memory of those events is influenced by his own biases.
It does if the majority of your buyers are on that one platform.
> Hulu ... $600 million this year

> TV still generates more than $70 billion ... viewership is down 12.5%

I can totally understand their decision here. Hulu cost them 9b in revenue, and only returned 600m.

(Whether this drop is actually because of Hulu or not is more at issue, but I can see them thinking it is.)
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Can anybody share how it is different from other crowdfunding scripts like Agriya?
seems they are completely aware they can get $200/m of paid tv content entirely free as well. which would actually suggest, despite your sarcasm, that no, it's not the reason.
You're right -- thanks. They've been slowly increasing their ad load every year since they've launched, and it looks like they're doing three ads in a break now for some shows.
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Now taking them off the internet is not going to sell overpriced, over-engineered, ineffective products designed to "fix" these "issues" ;-)

If Panetta is talking about specific "cyber-defense" capability, L3, or Lockheed (etc.) probably already have a product in the making and fulfills some of these requirements. They just need the law to be passed and the purchase order signed.
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I don't see how it's worth $200. After all, you can get unlimited TV shows on Netflix for $8/month.
There's quite a bit we'd like to/are planning to open source sometime, it's just a matter of people working to make it happen.
Not that I disagree that iOS 5 was obsolete the second that iOS 6 was released (the numbers agree with us), but...

if (NSClassFromString(@"UICollectionView")) // or something that makes a lot more sense, but that came to mind immediately
{
// facebook stuff
}

// Twitter.framework stuff
$200 is arbitrary and i'm not even sure it matters. would $100 or $50 be a different argument? that said, your analogy does not consider: 1. netflix has an insufficient library
2. as you admit, torrents are available essentially the same time they air.
His times were examples, not generalizations, but you spend that time anyway no matter what method you choose, even if your choice is no method at all. Inevitably you will have to think about desired outcomes, next-actions to reach those goals, and priorities. Why not externalize that thinking so you only have to do it once, and batch process it for efficiency?

When you choose “no system”, you're simply deciding to keep those things to do in your head, mentally reiterate and evaluate those lists, and reprioritize them throughout the day. It's true whether you think about it in those terms or not. How that could possibly be more efficient than using an external system (pen and paper) to capture that work is beyond me.
How does Google sell data? You mean the demographic breakdown of exposures?
Amazingly, you can submit a pull request to this site, to fix it. So I did. https://github.com/jdm/asknot/pull/27
It all makes sense now
I linked to it at the end of my comment, where I also mentioned who wrote it.

Here it is, again: http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful...

Lego Mindstorms are named after it.
"... We accessed [an operator's] systems through their x25 network which they never knew was running because the network vendor never disclosed it -- it was just underlying technology ..."

Old school. X.25 allowed Julian Assange to attack NASA with the WANK worm via X.25

"... Tencati was sure he could show the WANK worm attack on NASA originated in France. But he also knew he had to document everything, to have exact answers to every question and counter-argument put forward by the French secret service agents at the FBI meeting. When he developed a timeline of attacks, he found that the GEMPAK machine showed X.25 network connection, via another system, from a French computer around the same time as the WANK worm attack. ..." ~ http://suelette.home.xs4all.nl/underground/justin/chapter_2....
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That sort of explicit type annotation approach falls over for the more complex cases, like the function signature one I described. For example, let's say you have an object called a StringBuilder, like the one in Java/C#, and it's got a method for appending text to it. In JS, you'd use it like this:

var bananaCount = 5;
var sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("There are ");
sb.append(bananaCount);
sb.append(" bananas");

If you merely add type annotations, you're not going to win much here:

/* v8-type: this(StringBuilder) (any) -> none */
sb.append = function (...) { ... };

If you go to the trouble of adding function overloading, maybe things get a little better - TypeScript does something like this hypothetical:

sb.append = {
/* v8-type: this(StringBuilder) (string) -> none */
function (...) { ... },
/* v8-type: this(StringBuilder) (number) -> none */
function (...) { ... }
}

OK, but now what if you've got collection types? If you create an instance of List, what type is List.items? It'd have to be any[], unless you also add something like generics. So now you have to add a generics system or you have to introduce type casts, just to avoid having all your type information polluted by 'any's.

This may still be kind of unclear; it is often hard to see the failings of a type system until you see it in action on a larger application. In practice, it comes down to this: The type inferences that an engine like V8 or SpiderMonkey can draw at runtime end up being extremely accurate, and provide a lot more information than a compiler for a language like C or C# or Erlang has access to.
Sounds great. I will try it a bit more. Subscribed to the mailing list. Hope this will be a sucssess for you. Btw. I think the number of parts you see when searching could be increased.
Just curious... where are you getting the $9B number from?
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I'm pretty "ho-hum" about it.
Personally, between Hacker News and Reddit, I've already got enough stuff to keep me busy. I don't really do any serious reading on my iPhone except for Twitter since that's about all my attention span can last on a small screen. (short sentences … also reddit) — Plus, it's casual. Meant to be something I can skim.

Therefore, I'm not sure this is for me. Nor, if I'll ever have a Newstand App there or any other news app. I've had books loaded on my iPhone for forever that I've been meaning to read but haven't touched. Even my iPad was an uncomfortable reading experience beyond the "cool" factor. I did enjoy Flipboard, but only because it was that kind of micro-attention-span nurturing thing that smartphones cater to with Apps and stuff.

Will this App cater to my short attention span? For $1.99/month, I'd feel pressed to "overenjoy" it to get my money's worth. But, it's just not what I particularly care about when I'm on my mobile device. The web would be better for this, where I'm literally trying to chill out and catch up with focus on a larger screen.
i tend not to listen to people when drunk on cereal and cartoons in the AM, though. just a heads up.
I hate hulu plus.

If I'm paying a monthly fee for something I don't want to have to sit through an enormous amount of advertising. This is doubly true online when it's trivial to get it a higher quality version without advertising for free. I'm happy to pay the monthly fee for the convenience of advertisement free streaming (which is why I love netflix and spotify), but it's insulting to pay to watch advertising (and even more so when you also have a cable subscription).

All hulu plus does is what cable tv should have started doing years ago which is let you watch all shows on demand, it fixes nothing else and charges too much for that obvious privilege. The way the introduced ads also bothered me and reminded me of how the cable networks brought them in (initially cable tv had no advertising which is one of the reasons you paid for it).
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Tying it to one platform only "doesn't make sense" in a generic and irrelevant pseudo-strategic sense. The reality is that "The Magazine" is one dude making something neat in the time he's not spending on his multiple other business endeavors, applying the skills he's got and probing for market potential.

Plus the idea that you can do something this seamless and elegant on the web is horseshit. You can't subscribe to any web magazines in under ten seconds. (and if you could, odds are that they'd fill your inbox with spam.)
What did they offer you such that "Work for free and bear all project risk" is an attractive option?

1) Charge for bespoke development as per usual.

2) Negotiate such that you own the IP after the project is over.

3) Use the IP to build the SaaS.

4) If they want to migrate to your SaaS and take advantage of ongoing improvements for your standard monthly rates, wonderful. If not, maintenance at your prevailing contract rates or via a negotiated maintenance contract.
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I'm disappointed it's iOS only (I don't see a web version) and that it only supports iOS 6. This basically means I need a new iPad to use this, and my iPad still works just fine.

Because of this I cannot post any useful feedback regarding the content.
+1 for feedback's sake. i'm not trying to save anything to my github. i just want to try a garage demo so i can see if it's worth sharing with anyone.
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It is pretty weird. You hear a lot of 'no worries' and other Australianisms around SF, too.
I never said I find it ok what the CEO did, but that's not the reason the stocks crashed, the reason being that Zygna just does not work as a business model.

And the reason they've lost their "money" is not because of the CEO having different rules.
I always question people who write books, produce DVDs, hold seminars or sell any kind of knowledge concerning how to get rich or make extra money.

If you or any of these people are so good and know all these 'secrets' to success and money - Why don't you just get rich off of it and retire? why would you let everyone know you secrets? Won't this just crowd your space? Why do you need to sell this product to make money? Some of you claim that you just want to give back or help others and you have such success, then why are you charging me $20-$500+ ?

So I am always skeptical. I think that this is generally snake oil.
I think you hid an answer somewhere in their, bit it is buried in advertising puffery and pablum.
I'm surprised that the idea that anyone other than the backers are going to lose money keeps coming up; it's always looked pretty clear to me (even though I've gotten rewards delivered from around 30 out of 45 projects, mostly hardware, and the remaining ones are still pretty visible and active - past success doesn't feel like a guarantee on anyone's part, it's just pretty cool.) It's helped that I'm pretty well-qualified to judge these projects, though the only ones that looked unlikely to actually deliver have been really obvious (the "projector" that was supposed to be something mini-maglite sized that plugged into an iPhone headphone jack comes to mind) so it's not like it's actually taken all that much effort :-)

It also seems like the small-donation structure should make it difficult for any individual to have cause for action; I see some of KickStarter's recent changes as not wanting to even get into that fight, but that's because even winning would be expensive (and as has been suggested elsewhere in the thread, they're actually in it for the indie films.)

Or do you mean just the popularity risk, if enough projects don't deliver?
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None. Otherwise half the 9th circuit wouldn't be where they are.
I think my comment got misunderstood. Infact I praised you that you lot of things. Only constant in life is learning.
Even though you are not full time but you still know more than average full timers.
This is awesome thanks for making this open source.
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As Keynes said "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
Hulu pulls in $30 - $40 CPMs. That is comparable with TV, no?
Probably not, or at least not much. But you can't blame them for trying to keep Hulu on a short leash.
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It appears I still can open a support request in https://help.heroku.com/tickets/new?query=ticket

What the new interface appears to do is that it forces users to RTFM. Probably the first step every user in a self-serve system should do before opening a ticket.

After you have searched for the info, then probably you should open a ticket.

Now, if you have premium support. That is a whole new story.
Always had this idea: an app that notifies you when someone responds to a post on a forum. For example, if I'm looking to hire a freelancer and I post on 10 forums I don't want to bookmark and check each one but I also don't want to get email notifications everyone either.
They didn't take that away. You just click the favorite button on the show's page. Updates to that show are added to your queue. All that changed is the name (Favorite instead of Add to Queue).
People have said things like that to me about my e-mail newsletters (example: http://javascriptweekly.com/). I eventually caved and added RSS but hardly anyone uses that. The fact is, the medium does matter and people respond to different media in different ways.

For example, even though a lot of people say they'd rather learn from written articles, you can sell a bunch of videos in a set for $249 in a way that the equivalent set of articles would not sell.

Likewise, there have been experiments with selling free Web content on the Kindle for a few bucks.. and it sells like hotcakes despite being free on the Web. These are interesting times and it's worth going with what people are doing rather than what people are saying they want. (Though while always experimenting and ensuring you don't ignore your audience.)
I get your point but, while offline you could still get infected via physical media USB, CD, FLOPPY.

What I'm trying to say is that if a nuclear facility got hit and their machines where offline (from the internet) its still possibly to infect the rails using the Stuxnet attack vector.

But yes the claims are sensationalist, a better solution would be to increase security protocols and make standards out of those and have companies follow those in a more strict way.
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Good source.
Yes I can see and it shows IE at number 2 spot consistently.

>>doesn't function very well on small screens

Works just fine with "CTRL -"
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It is my opinion that in an ideal world (ideal as in, most pleasant for humans to inhabit), pricing of video would be constant, and high demand would be its own reward through higher sales volume.
Speaking for myself, I chose Linux over BSD as main OS back in the day (~1998), even though BSD was "hot" in hacker circles, because Linux had a slight edge in convenience. Configuration of X and such were slightly easier with Linux (Slackware back then), and HW support was somewhat better (though FreeBSD came close).

Also Linux has the GNU utilities (GNU grep etc), which were somewhat more featureful than the BSD equivalents. I know they can be installed on *BSD though the ports system but as I was new to unixy OSes, having a lot of packages installed by default was great.

I have no idea how it is these days, Linux just stuck.
The iPad/iOS match this precisely. People who own iPads have demonstrated they are willing to pay for content. The App is beautiful - it pulls you into focussing 100% on the content in front of you, unlike a web browser with it's endless diversions to the left and right.
Incredbly confusingly written story written by the plaintiff. Does anyone have a news story explaining what actually happened that they are challenging?

"Standing" is a horrible bug in or legal system thoughm It is insane to say that you have to have evidence of concrete loss before you can challenge a law that restricts your freedom. That means that only lawbreakers have access to relief provided by the courts!

Especially horrible when it was used to stop people from challenging the PATRIOT ACT -- Congress gave feds be power to hide evidence of abuses, and made it illegal to share that evidence, and then courts rejected petitioners who didn't have that evidence in hand!

Bonus HN: reasons mobile website forces a 8px font height. No thanks!
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That's the problem with analogy - it moves the conversation off the topic and onto the fit and fitness of the analogy. I should have thought of something with cars.

My point was not that both crimes were equivalent. My point was that "a user did it!" is not a defense against lawsuits.
There is a site called www.glgroup.com where you can do initial consulting with the individual for free just to know them but if you want specifics then you have to hire them using various options available.
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"Updates to that show are added to your queue" != "all show episodes are added to your queue". There used to be a choice: "subscribe to new episodes" and "subscribe to all episodes" now there is not and it's "subscribe to new episodes" only.
>No True Scotsman argument.

Kind of, but not really. The two major framework players in the PHP space right now are Zend Framework 2 and Symfony 2. This isn't really a "No True Scotsman" argument because both are headed up by reputable development shops (Sensio and Zend).
Both use namespaces.

> I don't care for fashion, so "behind the times" is neither here nor there, however a Java like OO model is definitely worse on most axes except foot-shooting and style-uniformity for large teams. If I want strong typing I want a system that leverages its power such as Haskell, not something like Java where compilation errors are mostly trivial things and I still end up with null pointers all over the place which is exactly the same as the most common type of error in more powerful dynamic languages. Beyond that, saying PHP OO is like Java is doing PHP a huge service because Java started out as OO with quite a strong vision. It may not have been perfect, and it's certainly developed its warts over time, but the seed of conceptual integrity in Java's OO is an order of magnitude more robust than PHP's.

Err, what? I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you here -- because PHP didn't have OO designs early on somehow that makes it's OO model less robust then Java's? I'm not going to bother arguing that point, but it certainly doesn't make me a less efficient developer. PHP's OO model is more than adequate for most web applications. I'm also not following the null pointer issue. Proper unit testing should vet null value issues out whether you're using a dynamic language or not. PHP has the (arguable) advantage of not completely shutting down when this mistake occurs.

> I was specifically making a comparison between PHP and Ruby. Making a one-side claim is a nonsensical response.

Not anymore of a one-sided claim than your own. You haven't done a lot of research into what's going on in the "popular open source PHP code" if you think your opinion is two-sided -- I'd strongly challenge you to point out what popular modern open source PHP code is inferior to popular modern open source ruby code.
This comment reminds me of an awesome episode of Breaking Bad in season 5, I won't ruin it but those who've seen it will know what I'm talking about. Are these passenger trains carrying Methylamine by any chance?